It’s raining secret weddings in Bollywood! Just a day after Ileana D’Cruz casually let the world know about her married status, it is the bold and beautiful Surveen Chawla’s turn to break the news of her clandestine wedding. The actress, who had teed off her journey in television with ‘Kahin To Hoga’, posted a cozy picture of herself locked in embrace with a man, captioning it: “And just like that, right in the middle of an extraordinary life, love gave us a fairy tale??... #Married #bliss #EternalLove #GiveUsYourLove&Blessings.”
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Word comes in that Surveen had met her husband Akshay Thakker through a common friend in 2013, following which they soon fell in love. They took the plunge in 2015, with only family and a handful of industry friends in attendance. What’s more, they were wed in keeping with Surveen’s dream white wedding theme in a chapel in a picturesque castle in Italy. So why the secrecy, you might wonder? Apparently they were waiting for the right time to announce the wedding and had planned to do it in January 2018.
Surveen, who will next be seen in Ekta Kapoor's web series titled ‘Haq Se’ alongside Rajeev Khandelwal, has been quite the straight-talking one, telling it like it is about a host of controversial topics. Here’s a sample of the topics she didn’t shy away from…
Casting Ouch
“I was propositioned, though luckily, I had the strength to turn down the offer to be ‘nice’ to the director, even if it meant losing a plum role. I guess I’ve been lucky to meet the right kind of people in Bollywood. I’ve never faced such sleazy offers in the Hindi film industry… This happened in Tamil cinema, where I had already auditioned and bagged an important role. This was a big film and an important director, who couldn’t speak Hindi. Can you believe the man’s audacity? The director had his friend call me and make the offer for me to sleep with the filmmaker! The friend told me it would only be until the film was made. I said thanks, but no thanks.”
Bold Image
“I don’t know if my onscreen image makes me seen as an easy target. But I have to say, I was offered a whole lot of supposedly bold and sexy roles after I did Hate Story 2. The industry slots and tags you. I guess it was the reputation of the franchise; I did nothing hot or sleazy in the film. There was a lot of sex in the first and third part, but mine was a revenge story. And yet, after it, I was flooded with offers of cheesy, salacious roles.”
Prejudice Lost
“When I was home, I’d look at women in the metropolis who smoked, drank and partied as wantons. But when I came to Mumbai, I did all these things, and didn’t think anyone had the right to call me a wanton.”
